It’s never a bad time to take a moment and marvel at the immense talent of Coco Gauff . At only 20 years old, she has cemented herself as a force in the game of tennis . With her 2023 singles win at the U.S. Open, we all believed she was poised to go on a run. Hell, she beat the 2024 U.S. Open champ Aryna Sabalenka for her first major singles title. This past summer, Gauff made appearances in the Paris Olympics, as well as this year’s U.S. Open. Unfortunately. To our surprise, she didn’t come away as a winner. I truly believe that some part of our disappointment stems from us living through the Serena Williams era. It’s a bar that was set high. And I think we have to recognize that we’re seeing a new bar being set by Gauff, and it’s just beginning. In 1995 Serena lost her first professional tennis match at age 14. She wasn’t dominant from the onset. But 23 major titles later, you’d forget about all of that. We lived through a long period where Serena winning a major, seemed like a...
